Studying Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studying Horror Cinema write by Bryan Turnock. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Studying Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key sequences. Sitting alongside such acknowledged classics as Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby are analyses of influential non-English language films as Kwaidan, Bay of Blood, and Let the Right One In. The author concludes with a chapter on 2017’s blockbuster It, the most financially successful horror film of all time, making Studying Horror Cinema the most up-to-date overview of the genre available.
Horror Franchise Cinema
Horror Franchise Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror Franchise Cinema write by Mark McKenna. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Horror Franchise Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses critical neglect toward horror film franchising by discussing the forces and factors governing its development across historical and contemporary terrain while also examining text and reception practices. Offering an introduction to the history of horror franchising, the chapters also examine key texts including Universal Studio monster films, Blumhouse production films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, I Spit on Your Grave, Let the Right One In, Italian zombie films, anthology films, and virtual reality. A significant contribution to studies of horror cinema and film/media franchising from the 1930s to the present day, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, media and cultural studies, franchise studies, political economy, audience/reception studies, horror studies, fan studies, genre studies, production cultures, and film histories.
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film write by Samantha Holland. This book was released on 2019-03-13. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.
Horror Film and Otherness
Horror Film and Otherness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror Film and Otherness write by Adam Lowenstein. This book was released on 2022-07-19. Horror Film and Otherness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society’s fear of the “others” that threaten the “normal.” The monstrous other might represent women, Jews, or Blacks, as well as Indigenous, queer, poor, elderly, or disabled people. The horror film’s depiction of such minorities can be sympathetic to their exclusion or complicit in their oppression, but ultimately, these images are understood to stand in for the others that the majority dreads and marginalizes. Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other. This “transformative otherness” confronts viewers with the other’s experience—and challenges us to recognize that we are all vulnerable to becoming or being seen as the other. Instead of settling into comforting certainties regarding monstrosity and normality, horror exposes the ongoing struggle to acknowledge self and other as fundamentally intertwined. Horror Film and Otherness features new interpretations of landmark films by directors including Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Stephanie Rothman, Jennifer Kent, Marina de Van, and Jordan Peele. Through close analysis of their engagement with different forms of otherness, this book provides new perspectives on horror’s significance for culture, politics, and art.
Masks in Horror Cinema
Masks in Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masks in Horror Cinema write by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Masks in Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.
